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MARYNA S. VIAZOVSKA
Maryna S. Viazovska, born on th December 1984, in Kyiv, Ukraine, is mathematician known for her work packing. She earned her master’s University of Kaiserslautern, her Ph.D Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine doctorate from the University of Bonn
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Since January 2018 she has held th Number Theory as a full professor a Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland after a short stint as a te assistant professor.
As of 2016, she has been receiving various awards, the latest being, in 2022, the Fields Medal,
SOURCE: PLUS MATHS ORG Medal, which is regarded as one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive, and has been described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics and is awarded to four mathematicians under 40 years of age per year. She is the second woman to win this award Viazovska was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 20
Sofia Diogo
Curiosity of the month...
Can you name the feminist figure born on the 25th of this month 156 years ago?
It’s Adelaide Cabete! Adelaide was a Portuguese physician, activist and feminist who founded the Portuguese women's organization, Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas, and served as its elected president from 1914 to the date of her passing
Cabete was the third Portuguese woman to graduate in Medicine and created the Republican League of Portuguese Women, along with Ana de Castro Osorio, in 1909. Through the two aforementioned institutions and the Alma Feminista (Feminist Soul) magazine, Adelaide supported underprivileged women and promoted awareness of better feminine hygiene and the opening of maternity wards.
“(...) all ladies and women's collectives in Portugal can take part in it, whatever social class they belong to, whatever their political faith or religious creed, which is why the purpose of this association is very simply to work for the civil, economic and moral improvement of women in particular and of humanity in general, absolutely removed from the struggle of passions" Adelaide Cabete on CNMP, interview for the newspaper O Mundo (1914)
